An unofficial repository containing the unofficial Indigo Book public-domain citation project (unofficially, of course).
This repository contains a copy of the raw HTML behind The Indigo Book, a public-domain citation guide for legal materials. See Sprigman, et al., The Indigo Book: A Manual of Legal Citation, Public Resource (2016). Its unusual color choice stems from protests by the publisher of a book of a different color; more details are on Wikipedia.
This repository is doubly unofficial. having no affiliation with the publisher of the Indigo Book. The publisher hosts the authoritative copy on law.resource.org, alongside a PDF version for those who prefer that format. (Both of those links were last visited on May 1, 2016.)
One of the interesting features of The Indigo Book is that it has been published in HTML, which opens up new possibilities for making tools that work with legal citations. To take the simplest example, one could write a script or macro that automatically abbreviates specific words in a case name, using this HTML as a data source. Many other possibilities come to mind. If you make something cool using The Indigo Book as a foundation, please feel free to share. That's what GitHub is for, after all, and the famous Venn diagram about there being no lawyers on GitHub is not strictly speaking true.
The Indigo Book bears a "CC0 Public Domain" copyright notice. In that spirit, the same CC0 license
is applied to other materials in the legalmakers/indigo-book repository.